It's time for a new Color Challenge at Splitcoaststampers! Barbara is hosting this week and she chose the bold and bright combination of Melon Mambo, Tangerine Tango and Night of Navy, with a dessert option to use "bling". I have to admit I struggled with this color combo a bit because I wanted to do something different than water coloring flowers, and finally landed on doing something a bit more graphic, using the fun Dahlia Turnabout stamp to create a thank you card, and used gold ink, cord and sequins for dessert.
The stamp creates the flower by rotating a quarter turn every time you stamp (so using a stamp positioner is really essential IMHO), so each time I made a turn I inked up the stamp with a different color.
After the stamping was done, the panel was trimmed down and added to a slightly larger Orange Peel square panel, wrapped with Gold Cord and popped up on the Doll Pink card base, which measures 4.5" square. After stamping and die cutting the sentiment, it was adhered to the center of the flower with foam tape, then the sequins were adhered.
Thanks so much for looking! I hope you'll be able to join us for the Color Challenge this week!
Registered: December 4, 2010 Location: Minnesota Posts: 16610
Tue, Mar 13, 2018 @ 2:26 PM
Beautiful card! I love this bold multi-colored dahlia flower image and how you added your sentiment to the flower center. The sparkly gold cord is a wonderful finishing touch on your card. I love what you have made for the color challenge. ~Karen.
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Tue, Mar 13, 2018 @ 6:35 PM
Beautiful! The flower petals look so great in those colors around the sentiment. LOVE the touches of gold, it goes so nicely together. The twine and sequins are a great touch.
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Fri, Mar 16, 2018 @ 5:13 PM
Wonderful stamping job to achieve this perfect rotated change of colors...seems so difficult! Love the gold metallic twine and bow with sequins. Such a cheerful card!
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